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Originally posted by hurleycr
yeah I gotta say top quality. I got all my fish (all 20 of em) from them and each and everyone has made it. They all arrived eating well. Even flake, and pellets.
There's no doubt I will purchase strickly from them and atlantis once I start adding coral.
Do you still have your returns pointed toward the bottom of the tank to keep the poo from settling? I tried that and it not working for me, do you think I need to just turn up my return pump a bit more? Then again you have a 90 and I have a 220, so it more surface area to cover.
I thought there was a diffrence with the design with the kalk reactors. I can't remember who it was here on RC but I had thought of purchasing one before and they said to go with a pump driven like GEO's because it can't pump the slurry into the tank if its mixing while the top up pump is running at the same time, and you didn't get that with the stirrer's. To you have alk issues because you don't have sand bed to buffer using kalk?
Yeah i'm taking my time with the hardware, my last big investment was my skimmer and man does it make a freakin diffrence. Going from a sub par skimmer to one that just cranks it out. You really don't understand what an intricate part of your filitration the skimmer is until you really get a beast of one that is matched to your tanks needs. I'm so glad I listened to you and connely. Removing all that rock, increasing the flow, get a better skimmer, makes such a huge diffrence.
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Wow.. got all your fish from them? I'm jealous!
I will take a photo of how my returns are setup now. Before, I used to have one return pointing STRAIGHT DOWN, and it split the current left and right and kept my back channel clear (Eheim 1262). But, it wasnt perfect, and allowed some detritus to collect up allll the way to the far right, behind that one island. So, I split the returns at the base with a Y. One points left, behind my large boulder, the other right, and they keep the entire back clear of detritus. It's PERFECT.
Kalk reactor: All I really remember with the kalk reactors was that the pump-based ones required more cleaning, since the kalk really messes with the pumps internal components. The stirrer has none of those issues, as the motor for the bar is isolated. The stirrer moves very very slowly, and doesnt kick the kalk up at all.
As for alk issues and sand buffering; I think that's a misconception. Sandbeds do not buffer alkalinity; if anything, they are alk hogs, but for different reasons.
Let's look at a Ca reactor first.. what is necessary for that media to release alkalinity and Ca? EXTREMELY low pH (achieved by dumping CO2 into the water). A Ca reactor without CO2 does nothing, so why do we then assume that sand beds do the same thing without the incredibly low CO2/pH required to dissolve the media. I could be wrong, but havent seen anything otherwise.
..and yeah.. I love my skimmer. Lots of people PMd me and stuf saying a BM250 would be too big for this tank, and I shouldnt do it. Man am I glad I didnt listen! I mean it's very easy to counter over-skimming, and that's by feeding more and or getting more fish, and that's just going to benefit your corals, because theyre going to be getting MORE fresh food sources before they can break down and rot!